In the Shadow of Freedom By Alessandra Harris (Orbis, 2024) Alessandra Harris offers an extensively researched work on the Christian world’s role in the...
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bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision by Nadra Nittle (Fortress Press, 2023) Writer, scholar, and public intellectual bell hooks is known as a feminist, not a...
There’s a curious coda at the tail end of writer Uwem Akpan’s curriculum vitae. After learning about Akpan’s work experience, accomplishments, and awards, the...
Catholic print media has recently noted the prominence of Christian science fiction/fantasy authors. In 2021, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the...
Infinite Regress By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022) Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism...
Although Catholic themes, characters, and motifs feature prominently in his work, New York–based writer, political historian, and chronicler of all things...
The Defiant Middle By Kaya Oakes (Broadleaf Books, 2021) Jane Goodall once said, “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why...
Who am I going to be anymore? Antonia had asked. . . . No longer a teacher at the college, no longer volunteering and serving on half a dozen boards, no longer...
The Five Wounds By Kirstin Valdez Quade (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021) It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and unemployed Amadeo...
